[plug] [OT] Local-user IMAP

[Craig Ringer]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>> Do you /really/ have to use Cyrus IMAP?  Using e.g. dovecot or
>> courier, I believe that you could achieve what you want trivially,
>> because they don't care if a local process starts screwing about with
>> the Maildirs directly.  I'm pretty sure that courier also supports
>> "shared" mailboxes which may be useful for what you want.
> 
> Indeed. Much as I like Cyrus, it doesn't sound like it's at all well 
> suited to the things you want it to do.

Oh, but ... please don't use Courier. *shudder*. Not that uw is much 
better. IMHO until recently Cyrus was the only decent option for an IMAP 
server - but dovecot is apparently OK and reasonably stable now.

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Craig Ringer